Lesson @13- Crack Hard Sudoku Puzzles With the Skyscraper Pattern_Full-HD

LETS SOLVE THIS USING SKYSCRAPER METHOD

PS : USE THIS METHOD ONLY AFTER FILLING ALL POSSIBE CANDIDATES
IF YOU find TWO Columns (OR two Rows) that can have only
two candidates for a particular digit
Then if two of these digits are in the same column(or row)
then it follows logically that one of the digits must be “True”
and the other is false. In that case any Candidates of the same
digit that “see” both can be eliminated
ITS SIMILAR TO X-WING LOGIC
Two columns that have only Two candidates for a particular digit

IN COLUMN 2 AND COLUMN 7 THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES

WHERE A 7 CAN GO
SO IT IS A SKYSCRAPER OF NUMBER 7
IT IS SIMILAR TO X-WING PATTERN AND HAS SIMILAR LOGIC
HOWEVER INSTEAD OF FORMING A NEAT X-PATTERN THE ROOF IS
SLANTED A BIT MAKING IT LOOK LIKE A SKYSCRAPPER
LETS CHECK THE LOGIC OF OTHER CONDITIONS
IF THERE IS NO 7 IN COLUM 2 CELL B2
SOLVING STRATEGY: WE CAN ELIMINATE 7 FROM CELLS THAT SEES
BOTH OF THESE CELLS
7 IN THE TOP ROW (CELL A1) SEES BOTH THE 7’S IN THE SKYSCRAPER
 LETS CHECK 7 IN CELL B1

7 IN B1 SEES ONLY 7 OF SKYSCRAPER AT CELL B2 IN SAME BLOCK AND

SAME ROW
 LETS TAKE A LOOK AT ANOTHER EXAMPLE WITH ROTATED VIEW
NOW BASE OF SKYSCRAPER IS COLUMN INSTEAD OF A ROW

LETS FILL IN ALL THE POSSIBLE CANDIDATES

TO DO: Look for two rows with a number that appears only
twice in that row. In this case it’s the number 3.
3 appears in Row C two times and also
3 appears twice in Row E